Ever since President-elect Donald Trump started talking about tariffs, Canada’s government has gone through a transformation. Overtly not huge fans of oil and gas, the ministers in Ottawa suddenly turned defensive. The latest to do that was resource minister Jonathan Wilkinson, who this week threatened in-kind retaliation against Trump’s tariffs. Earlier this week, the U.S. president-elect stepped up an argument for making Canada the 51st state of the country. Trump said he would use “economic force” to make that happen,…
